WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!

Sitting on the couch, watching the news. Sounds like a Status update for Facebook, but it's not. What I am watching is Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn talking about Health Care Reform. This is exactly what he said, I didn't edit this out:
Reporter: What's being done to help the woman at the town hall meeting?
Coburn: Well, everything we can, but, y'know she has a case filed with her and that's all confidential, so we can't speak the details of it, uuh, but we've had several people call us, and say that they're willing to help her, since! So, and so y'know the question is-
Reporter: Do you do that with the Millions of Uninsured people in this country-
Coburn: Yeah!
Reporter: Who are on the same boat?
Coburn: No! They're not on the same boat! Don't exaggerate Most people-
Reporter: There are millions of people who are uninsured in this country.
Coburn: Your gonna ask me a question, let me answer, or are you gonna argue.
Reporter: I'm just asking.
Coburn: What I'm saying is there are millions of people who are uninsured, but they're not people who've lost their husband's ability to be a bread winner, and then not have a safety net that is taken care of. There's not many. And the question is, is are we efficient in how we help people who really depend on us.
Reporter: So of the 47 million people in this country, her case is an exception?
Coburn: Absolutely. Absolutely. Let's talk about the 47 million you all continue to refer to. 11 million of 'em are illegal immigrants; 16 million are legible of "S chip" or "Medicate Today", they go anywhere, there gonna get covered 'cause there eligible; we have 11 million who are making over 75,000 dollars a year who choose not to buy insurance.
So we actually have about nine million Americans who really need our help.
Reporter: So it's exaggerating.
Coburn: Absolutely it's exaggeratin'. But it does mean the problem with the cost of health care. Because the thing that keeps the from getting Health Care is cost.
Wow. That's almost as bad as the amount of racism it takes to call Obama a racist.
So there are just 38 million, no, not thousand, not ten thousand, not even hundred thousand. 38 Million Americans without health insurance that we should just pay no attention to.
38 Million Americans, more than 1/9 of the country we can just plow over. Sure, 8/9's of the country we will pay attention to, but 1/9 of the country can just die.
Let's break down the people who should just die, shall we?
11 Million illegal immigrants, which isn't even true, according to a republican study, there are 8 million illegal immigrants who are uninsured. And since it is a republican study, there are probably only about 5 million illegal immigrants. And even so, illegal immigrants have just as much of a right to be healthy as people who have been living here all of their lives. And when he said that 11 million were illegal immigrants, he didn't even go on to explain why they shouldn't get coverage, he just said "11 million are illegal immigrants" as if they deserve to die.
16 Million Americans who legible, but for some reason don't have health insurance. What? That almost makes less sense than the last one. So they have no health insurance but are covered by health insurance?
11 million who choose not to get health insurance, and are rich. So they are making way more money than most of the 16 million and probably all of the illegal immigrants. And they choose not to get health insurance. Personally, I don't understand it and I'm sure that there are not 11 million people who do.
He is pulling numbers out of... I don't even know where.
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Sam

Senator Edward Kennedy: Dead at 77

The Lion of the Senate, brother of the legendary president John F. Kennedy, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy has died from a brain tumor at the age of 77.

When he had started his political career, his brother, John was serving his legendary time in the White House. Partly because of his brother's popularity, and partly because of his great ideas, he was elected into the Senate.
There he served 46 years.
Throughout is entire career, he fought and fought for things like Health Care reform. A few posts ago, I talked about Health Care reform in "Health Care for E.T.?", in that, I praised Universal Health Care which Sen. Kennedy did.
Senator Kennedy said in his article for Newsweek Magazine that the thought of someone not being able to afford full treatment for cancer was what kept him on the Senate floor.
Unfortunately, he was never able to vote on Universal Health Care, but I am positive that he would have voted Yea on it.
Although his successor will almost definitely be a Democrat, who will hopefully vote Yea on Universal Health Care.

In 1980, Ted Kennedy ran for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter.
He ran against Carter because he didn't feel he was moving far enough on things life Health Care. And there, he was probably right.
In the 1980 Democratic Convention, though, he didn't win.

In the 2008 election, he surprised the world by endorsing Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton.
In fact, he was one of the few people who said that Obama was going to defeat Hillary Cilnton.
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Sam

Health Care for E.T.?

Health Care reform is something that has been on the news so often, that people, including me, are getting sick of it.
But once you think about it, it is a pretty interesting subject.
Especially Universal health care.
If it really is that bad, how can it help millions, and millions of people.
The people that the Republicans ignore, that they watched die in New Orleans during Katrina, and did nothing about. And while the Democrats said that we had to do save these people's lives, and if we had Al Gore as a president (that's right, although I was only two when that happened, I'm still mad about it.) thousands of people would still be walking this earth, but since we had George Bush, those thousands died. And the city is still recovering from it.
If Sarah Palin had to choose between a Billionaire who had a business opportunity for them, and one thousand people who were on their death beds (not making a cent), she would choose the Billionaire with no questions asked.
But ever since the Obama campaign (the only reasonable campaign in that election as far as I am concerned), Obama was proposing the idea of Universal Health Care.
It is a myth (and one that the conservative media came up with) that the U.S. has the best health care system in the world. Which is evident by the life expectancy rate, in 1945, the U.S. was No. 1, in life expectancy; now, it's No. 21.
Another myth is that Universal Health Care would be too expensive. The fact is that their could be 200 billion dollars chipped off of our Ten-Trillion Dollar debt if we went with Universal Health Care. That's 2% of the debt, and right now, anything that we can chip off of the debt is good.
If it were the Health Insurance company's choice, they would keep the 200 billion, and the Chairman and CEO's of them would give it to themselves as bonuses.
It makes me angry that the Health Care industry cares more about making money than they do about actual health care. that's obviously the purpose of pre-existing conditions, to make money. If you have cancer, and you are lying on your death bed, and you had changed your health insurance about three years ago, they would probably say that it was a pre-existing condition, and you would get nothing. Nothing at all.
It is another myth that if we did this, the government would completely run Health Care. Since the campaign, Barack Obama has said that if you like your doctor, you can keep him or her, but if you don't like the health care situation you are in, you have the option to change.
In the end, Universal Health Care is awesome, and Pre-existing conditions suck. So please, Congress, pass Universal Health Care.